Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YEAR'S INTERLUDE, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT


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YEAR'S INTERLUDE, by                    
First Line: The nights grow cool and longer, and the days
Last Line: The quiet, deep-toned peace of past septembers.
Subject(s): Time


The nights grow cool and longer, and the days,
Holding rich fruitfulness, are bright and still.
Each hollow is a cup of amber haze;
And goldenrod lights up the drabbest hill.
The path among the gray birch trees is lost
Beneath a drift of citron and pale gold --
Small, fragile leaves that do not wait for frost;
That do not linger, growing seared and old.
Wise, gentle month, the year's strong passion spent,
What beauty of fulfillment you have known;
What high serenity and blest content ...
Each has a charm, peculiarly its own;
Let others make their choice -- my heart remembers
The quiet, deep-toned peace of past Septembers.





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